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I have just taken charge of a new laptop and so have an excuse to spend some time upgrading to the latest and greatest versions of my favourite apps.  First on the list was FeedDemon. I started using the newsgator outlook plugin a few years ago to manage my feeds but switched to FeedDemon when newsgator made it part of their subscription. Having my feeds outside of outlook has turned out to be much better for my productivity!  Brad Feld has a run down on the new features in version 2.1:

Nick Bradbury just released FeedDemon 2.1.  It’s spectacular.  I continue to use as many different newsreaders as I can get my hands on – FeedDemon is far and away the best for anyone with a large number (> 100) of feeds being monitored.  Nick has plenty of details on his blog, but some of the new features include:

• Popular Topics: see your most frequently linked articles across your subscription list
• Subscription Search: search your subscriptions
• Security Lockdown: we’ve learned a lot about feed security at NewsGator and Nick continues to help lead the charge
• Keyboard Navigation: not only is there extensive keyboard nav, but you can customize it

There are plenty more, especially for a x.1 release.  Attention, search, and security – look for a lot more of this across NewsGator’s products.

I’ve also installed IE7 and, for the moment at least, am using it more than firefox.  The acid test will be to install firefox 2.0 and see how it stacks up. There is a lot of comment out there about this so I won’t add to the chatter here.

Next on the list is the new version of freemind - more on that to come.

This post was written on the train home using Windows Live Writer (Beta).